Michael Sweeney's Method

Dud and Michael are ‘invisible nothings’ in their school full of rich kids. They come from a poorer suburb and they’re not cool or tough. They’re not even nerds.
They’re pretty much left alone, until they make friends with the new guy in school.

I don’t know why we didn’t figure out who the American was earlier, especially when half the country knew what was going on. I guess Dud and I just weren’t thinking about it, really. It’s the sort of thing you always think happens to other people anyway, so it’s not as though we were expecting it. I’m talking about a few months that changed my life; the people I met and the things I did that term would stay with me for a long time, and help me to understand a little bit more about the world and how I fit into it. Anyway, I’m getting ahead of myself. It happened a few years ago, and this is how it all started…

Laugh-out-loud funny, with an irresistible central character, this is a cool, witty excursion into YA fiction by one of Australia’s most talented comic writers and columnists.